Frankenstein

You may know him as "The Monster", "Frankenstein's Monster", "Frankenstein", or "The Creature", if you're like Boris Karloff. He's often portrayed as new life born of the conglomeration of dead life. In the Universal pictures he's a brute that has a softer, misunderstood side that's not visible to those who don't know him. In Mary Shelley's novel he's an intelligent person who is dismissed because of his physical appearance..

"Frankenstein" is what I prefer to call him, while I call his creator "Dr. Frankenstein". Anybody who is pedantic about this fact already knows who you're talking about.